[Stephen Edgar]

Your first question you can easily do with a WordPress page and link to it and any other FAQ’s you may want to have on your site.

To extend your profiles you will need a plugin, search the plugin repo’s for either a plugin compatible with bbPress or check out BuddyPress our sister project that includes this functionality out of the box.

Twitter/Facebook sharing is also plugin territory

Your 3 sections, just make 3 forums or 3 categories each with a forum.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/

Other than that take a look at some of the sites people are linking to here or check out some of the example sites https://bbpress.org/about/examples/ and some of bbPress’ docs https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/ https://codex.bbpress.org/

[Stephen Edgar]

It sounds like everything is working fine…

bbPress includes a redirect to the home screen after logging in whereas WordPress takes you typically to the WordPress dashboard.

The primary reason for this is because we don’t want your sites users being redirected to the WordPress Dashboard.

[Stephen Edgar]

I just split this topic, bumping a two year old topic is of no help to the previous posters and 9 times out of 10 won’t be helpful for yourself either 😉

I’m not exactly sure what you are after or you have already fixed it as your forums look ok.

To answer the specific question though, make a copy of your themes page.php file and rename it to bbpress.php, though as stated I’m not sure you need this.

[Stephen Edgar]

All I can suggest is you look to find someone who can help you out with some custom CSS and the like, we try to make bbPress work ‘out of the box’ with the thousands of themes available and if you need it to look different you need to makes these changes yourself or find someone who can or pay someone.

We can give a few tips when we can see the forums but as we can’t even see them we can’t offer even anything basic for you sorry.

[Stephen Edgar]

The primary problem from what I see is you have different font size/color for the bbPress signature plugin you are using.

[Stephen Edgar]

This is because your theme appears to be inserting bbPress within a page that lists the ‘author’.

You may need to make a copy of your page.php and rename bbpress.php and remove anything ‘extra’ that may be being inserted there.

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress does not include “groups”, I think your referring to BuddyPress, head on over to their site to work out what’s going on https://buddypress.org

[Stephen Edgar]

Seems a little weird, if you set the number of rows to 100 which is the default it should only take a few seconds before you see either “Converting forums” or “Converting Users”.

I would double check your phpBB config.php file (it should be in the root folder of your phpBB install.

e.g.

// phpBB 3.0.x auto-generated configuration file
// Do not change anything in this file!
$dbms = 'mysqli';
$dbhost = '';
$dbport = '';
$dbname = 'your_db_name';
$dbuser = 'your_db_user_name';
$dbpasswd = 'your_db_user_password';
$table_prefix = 'phpbb_';
$acm_type = 'file';
$load_extensions = '';

Make sure you use the correct table prefix.

[Stephen Edgar]

I don’t know of any plugin that does this for bbPress, you could try searching for a WordPress plugin that does this for comments then contact the author to see if they could add support for bbPress.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/

[Stephen Edgar]

With the existing code in the original topic and along with this snippet I had else where you should be fine to put it all together:

To get the child/sub forums from the current forum page use bbp_forum_get_subforums() and then pass those ID’s to post_parent__in (Note the double underscore). You can also go the other way to get ‘parents’ of the current forum with bbp_get_forum_ancestors().

e.g. To include forum ID’s 2, 5, 12 and 14 add the post_parent__in

if ( bbp_has_topics( array( 'orderby' => 'rand', 'posts_per_page' => 1, 'post_parent__in' => array( 3, 5, 12, 14 ) ) ) ) {

e.g. To exclude forum ID’s 7, 11, 19 and 21add the post_parent__not_in

if ( bbp_has_topics( array( 'orderby' => 'rand', 'posts_per_page' => 1, 'post_parent__not_in' => array( 7, 9, 11, 19 ) ) ) ) {

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress should work fine using the ‘default’ settings including the default slugs:

The shortcode should be [bbp-forum-index] (You used bbb and not bbp)

The Japanese translations for forum and forums are the same, these should be different based on how the Japanese language uses plurals in this context as if they are the same this will cause a problem for bbPress, I had to use フォーラ so it was different from フォーラム 😉

Here it all is working for me, my domain is http://en-au2.wp.nw/build, yours would be http://careerkokusai.com/ and everything is using ‘native’ Japanese for the permalinks 🙂

bbPress Settings (Slugs/Permalinks) https://cloudup.com/iFKwgluP_5g

Page with (Back end) [bbp-forum-index] https://cloudup.com/icgezwdk6Vk

Single Page (Front end) with Menu link showing the above page フォーラム https://cloudup.com/iy4i3RksjRI

Forums (Front end) https://cloudup.com/iltDJlyKqXK

Single Forum (Back end) https://cloudup.com/iAvcWJ7qBs6

Single Forum (Front end) https://cloudup.com/i061G0kJwtx

Single Topic (Back end) https://cloudup.com/i-hfrIBhgT0

Single Topic (Front end) https://cloudup.com/iOMAKPqAlmu

[Stephen Edgar]

Simply it is not us here at bbPress (or BuddyPress) that would write the code to add support for that software to use with our software, it is up to them if they want to add support or not.

[Stephen Edgar]

As I don’t own a Mac, yet, I think this is the issue in that your MAMP setup is using port 8888:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-2-3-now-available/page/3/#post-133305

The only difference between XAMPP and MAMP (free) is that XAMPP uses “localhost” host name, while MAMP (free) uses “localhost:8888″ when using MAMP ports by default (MAMP pro uses “localhost” that tell why it works OK with you). So I went to MAMP preferences and changed the ports settings to use default Apache and MySQL ports to use “localhost” instead of “localhost:8888″, and finally posting topics and replies is available again 🙂

Even better I setup a virtual hostname manually in MAMP (free) and the everything works fine.

I hope this will help others with the same issue with MAMP (free). Thanks for your time

[Stephen Edgar]

There are only a handful of themes that I know cause constant issues and out of thousands this is pretty good. Genesis themes are also OK as there is a custom plugin to add support for Genesis themes. I’ll go out and say that the Hybrid Core themes have full bbPress functionality built into the core framework, just some theme authors do not add this support to their theme.

Lets give it a couple more hours, at the time of writing this there ~2 hours until their support opens:

We’ve received your message!

We are outside office hours right now, but will get back to you ASAP in the morning!

Our office hours are 8am-8pm Eastern Standard Time (GMT -4).

[Stephen Edgar]

I actually took a peek at the code to see if there was an easy to do this, if we could override or add a custom function or filter to achieve this. No was the result 🙁

We have some moderation changes coming in bbPress 2.6 in that individual users can be assigned a single forum (or multiple forums) to be a moderator rather than the current behaviour where if they are a moderator they can moderate all forums.

I have note scribbled down for when I next checkout this feature to check what if how we can add/modify bbPress to allow what you have asked above 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

Try creating a new user and setting their bbPress role to “keymaster” and WordPress role to “Admin”, can this user access http://www.maldiveschina.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=reply ?

[Stephen Edgar]

Weird, I just refreshed the topic page you linked to and after half a dozen reloads tyhe page is now blank and still trying to reload (Timestamp %:57pm Local Time if you go looking at your logs), If I insopect the page with Google Chrome inspector I have a console error Failed to load resource: net::ERR_CACHE_MISS. Right now (5:59pm) the page just finished loading and looks like what the previous refreshes looked like, I do have a new console log error though for jquery-migrate.min.js.

HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected number 
Server: cloudflare-nginx
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 07:56:31 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Last-Modified: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 21:12:37 GMT
ETag: "261795-1c20-4fffc6e7d6bab"
CF-BCK-Digest: {"bck_type":"BCK_C3","up_stat":"304"}
CF-Cache-Status: HIT
X-Accel-Buffering: yes
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Expires: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 07:56:31 GMT
Cache-Control: public, max-age=86400

Possibly a ‘Cloudflare’ cache issue otherwise not sure what else this could be as you note it is not consistent, maybe try creating a new forum with a topic and reply and try to replicate it using those and if it matters if the user is logged in or not. Also does this happen with any pages or posts on your site?

[Stephen Edgar]

Strange, try resetting your permalinks. In your WordPress Administration Screens navigate to Settings > Permalinks, select a different permalink structure and save. Then select your preferred permalink structure and save again.

[Stephen Edgar]

That should work fine, could be a plugin conflict, also could be an issue with “HTML entities” for example apostrophes ' and different language locales can use unicode syntax to save e.g. & # 0 3 9 ; (Edited to add a whitespace between each character so it displays correctly)

[Stephen Edgar]

A couple of things to also check and try:

– Try creating a new user, assign the participant role, login as that user and post a topic or reply and try editing.
– If that didn’t work, disable all your plugins and switch to the Twenty Fourteen theme and try again.
– Ensure you are trying to edit the topic/reply before the default 5 minute allowed time setting in bbPress settings.

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool, thanks for kicking this off 🙂

Lets start with the layout structure and a “Table of Contents”, I added these recently and these are a good place to start and closely match not just the BuddyPress Codex layout guides but also much of WordPress also (Links to these below).

Getting Started, Theme Development ,Plugin Development, Participate & Contribute and Developer Resources

The Codex is now fully setup with an ‘Automated Table of Contents’ sidebar, see this section on how to acheive this, also the “breadcrumb” will also ‘sync’ up with this table of contents structure.

For now ignore the ‘related posts’, these should also update based on the table of contents plus we are going to move the functions from their current location in the codex, I’ll detail those plans later.

Links to topics on the forums for each section/page of the codex is a great idea, we can do this fairly easily. 🙂

The ‘About’ page is part of the blog, the categories are the categories of the blog posts on the site and this is an automatically generated list, same with tags. Also many of the visible (and there are many not visible) of links from the ‘About’ page is from before we had the codex setup, thus much of the content throughout those links is either duplicated or redundant. A third set of duplicated content is our Trac home page https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org that we need to redo and sync up with the same content (or at least links) to the correct content on the bbPress codex. A fourth location will be the actual source code of bbPress which primarily is on the plugin homepage https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/. The fifth source would be basically identical to the fourth though is contained in a separate file and that will be for the plugin homepage on GitHub https://github.com/bbpress/bbpress.

BuddyPress has a Google Docs “Table of Contents” here and I have just forked and edited that spreadsheet for us here on bbPress. I have set the permissions so anyone with this link can edit the spreadsheet, with some luck it won’t be vandalised, if this happens we can change this setting to “edit only” for verified editors.

Before we change any of the existing URL’s for documents in the codex (e.g. Moving the FAQ into the “Getting Started” section) we will need to make some redirects behind the scenes so existing links will be forwarded to the new links.

A good place to start would be extracting the sections from the awesome guides Robin has already contributed to build up our “Table of Contents” and once we are happy with what we have for starters in the “Table of Contents” we can then start updating the actual codex pages.

A few references where we can reuse content and build up our table of contents can be found throughout existing WordPress and BuddyPress projects:

BuddyPress Codex

https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/
https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/
https://make.wordpress.org/docs/tag/handbooks/

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[Stephen Edgar]

Your using the same theme as trhe following topic, I have asked the theme author to come by with some tips so subscribe to this topic also if there are any updates:

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[Stephen Edgar]

Ok, this is a “Hybrid Core” theme, I notice it is only running the 2.0 beta Hybrid Core Framework.

I can’t find an exact fix as themehybrid.com support is limited without even a publicly accessable FAQ and the themes author also does not list anything either.

I just sent the theme authors a quick email asking them if they’d swing by with some tips, so lets see what happens.

Essentially something similar to what was done in this and/or this topic needs to occur though specifi to the Tracs theme.

[Stephen Edgar]

You what want the plugin to add the button after the reply content, if you can hook it use bbp_theme_after_reply_content or you can modify loop-single-reply.php and add it after <?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_after_reply_content' ); ?>

See this to get started on modifying bbPress templates so you don’t lose your changes after bbPress updates https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[Stephen Edgar]

This appears to have nothing to do with bbPress, please post on the plugins support forum you are trying to resolve an issue with or post on the general WordPress support forums.

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